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PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCHES 
OF  PHILADELPHIA 

THEIR  ORGANIZATION  AND  CHANGES  OF 
LOCATION  AND  NAME 


By  REV.  WILLIAM  P.  WHITE,  D.D. 


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PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCHES  OF  PHILADELPHIA: 

Their  Organization  and  Changes  of  Location 
AND  Name. 

BY  rev.  WILLIAM  P.   WHITE,  D.D. 

In  the  interests  of  local  history  a  reliable  account  of  the 
organization  of  the  earlier  Presbyterian  churches  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  their  later  changes  of  location  and  name,  is 
deemed  desirable.  It  is  this  that  we  propose  giving  in  tlie 
following  paper. 

The  churches  earliest  organized  assumed  numbers  as  names. 
Only  six  out  of  fifteen  of  these  are  thus  known  to-day. 

The  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Philadelphia  is  believed, 
by  most  authorities,  to  have  been  organized  in  1G98,  the  year 
in  which  Rev.  Jedediah  Andrews,  who  came  from  New  Eng- 
land and  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  began  regular 
preaching.  There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  Presbyterian 
services  were  held  some  years  previous  to  that  time.  Francis 
Makemie  visited  Philadelphia  in  1692,  and  it  is  altogetlier 
probable  that  he  gathered  the  litth'  l)and  of  Pres])yterians 
together  for  public  worship. 

^Ir.  Andrews  was  ordained  and  installed  as  ])astor  of  the 
First  Church  in  1701,  the  year  in  which  Pliiladelphia  re- 
ceived its  charter  as  a  city.     By  whom  this  action   was  con- 

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2  Presbyterian  Churches  op  Philadelphia. 

summated  is  uncertain,  as  a  Presbytery  had  not  yet  been 
organized.  It  is  probable  that  it  was  by  a  number  of  Pres- 
byterian ministers  siunmoned  from  a  distance,  inasmuch  as 
John  Talbot,  a  navy  chaplain  of  the  Church  of  England, 
writing  to  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in 
1703,  says:  ''The  Presbyterians  here  come  a  great  way  to 
lay  hands  one  on  another." 

The  first  place  of  worship  of  the  First  Church  was  the 
''Barbadoes  Warehouse,"  on  the  northwest  comer  of  Second 
and  Chestnut  Streets.  Presbyterians  alternated  with  Baptists 
and  Congregationalists  here. 

In  1704  the  congregation  removed  to  the  south  side  of  what 
is  now  Market  Street  (then  High),  on  the  southeast  comer 
of  Bank,  which  is  between  Second  and  Third  Streets,  and 
occupied  their  first  church,  a  small  frame  building,  which 
because  surrounded  by  buttonwood  trees  was  popularly  known 
as  ''The  Old  Buttonwood  Church."  It  retained  this  location, 
with  enlargement  and  improvement  in  architecture,  for  one 
hundred  and  sixteen  years.  In  it  was  organized,  in  1706,  the 
first  Presbytery  in  America,  and  here  convened  the  first 
Synod  in  1717. 

It  removed  in  1820,  "on  account  of  the  encroachments  of 
business,"  it  is  said,  to  its  present  location  on  the  southeast 
comer  of  Seventh  and  Locust  Streets,  facing  Washington 
Square.  Here  was  organized  the  New  School  General  As- 
sembly in  1837  and  here  met  the  first  reunited  General  As- 
sembly in  1870. 

The  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  an  outgrowth  of  the 
Whitefield  revival,  was  organized  in  1743,  forty-five  years 
later  than  the  First.  For  a  number  of  years  it  was  connected 
with  New  Brunswick  Presbytery  and  the  Synod  of  New  York. 
It  was  originally  located  on  Fourth  Street  between  Arch  and 
Market.  In  1750  it  removed  to  the  corner  of  Third  and  Arch, 
where  it  remained  for  eighty-seven  years.  It  was  the  first 
church  in  which  a  General  Assembly  convened,  that  of  1789, 
consisting  of  twenty-one  ministers  and  ten  elders.  In  1837, 
it  removed  to  Seventh  Street,  below  Arch,  and  built  a  beau- 
tiful church,  with  white  marble  front.     In  1872  it  occupied 


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its  present  costly  building  on  the  southeast  comer  of  Twenty- 
first  and  Walnut  Streets.  It  was  the  mother,  as  was  also 
the  First,  of  a  number  of  churches. 

The  Third  Church,  on  the  south  side  of  Pine  Street  near 
Fourth,  was  oro^anized  in  1762,  and  is  the  only  one  of  the 
earlier  churches  to  retain  its  original  location  and  part  of 
its  original  building  to  the  present  time.  Its  organization 
was  attributed  ''to  the  spread  of  the  city  and  the  increase 
of  the  congregation  of  the  First  Church."  It  was  also  said 
to  be  ''for  the  benefit  of  the  inhabitants  dow^n  on  the  hill." 
Upon  application  of  a  committee,  the  Penn  proprietors  granted 
a  lot  on  "Society  Hill"  upon  which  "to  erect  a  church  or 
meeting  house,  and  lay  out  a  burial  yard  for  the  use  of  said 
Society  of  Presbyterians  forever."  In  the  erection  of  the 
church  part  of  the  funds  were  raised  by  a  lottery,  as  was 
done  in  case  of  some  other  churches. 

The  church  suffered  severely  during  the  Revolutionary 
War.  The  British  used  it  as  a  hospital.  The  soldiers  burned 
the  pews,  stripped  the  pulpit  and  the  windows  and  finally 
used  the  building  as  a  stable  for  the  horses  of  dragoons. 

The  First,  Second  and  Third  were  the  only  Presbyterian 
churches  in  Philadelphia  during  the  first  century  of  the 
Church's  history.  Many  eminent  names  were  connected  with 
them.  Rev.  Jedediah  Andrews,  the  first  pastor  of  the  First 
Church,  served  it  for  nearly  fifty  years.  He  was  also  clerk 
of  Presbytery,  and  most  of  the  records  are  in  his  handwrit- 
ing until  his  death  in  1847.  He  was  also  clerk  of  Synod  and 
its  first  moderator.  Rev.  Francis  Alison,  D.D.,  Rev.  John 
Ewing,  D.D.,  Rev.  James  P.  Wilson,  D.D.,  Rev.  Albert  Barnes 
and  Rev.  Dr.  TTerrick  Johnson  were  some  of  the  eminent  men 
who  succeeded  him. 

The  first  pastor  of  the  Second  Church  was  Rev.  Gilbert 
Tennent;  and  among  those  who  followed  him  were  Dr.  Ash- 
bel  Green,  Dr.  J.  J.  Janeway,  Dr.  Thomas  H.  Skinner  and 
Dr.  C.  C.  Cuyler. 

As  pastors  of  the  Third  Church  may  be  mentioned  Rev. 
George  Duffield,  D.D.,  a  hero  of  the  Revolutionary  era;  Rev. 
John   Blair   Smith,   D.D.,   Rev.    Archibald   Alexander,   D.D., 


4  Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia. 

Rev.  Ezra  Stiles  Ely,  D.D.,  and  Rev.  Thomas  Brainerd,  D.D. 

The  Fourth  Church  (the  fourth  also  in  a  century)  was  or- 
ganized in  1799,  and  was  first  located  on  Fifth  and  Gaskill 
Streets,  near  Spruce.  Later  it  removed  to  Twelfth  and  Lom- 
bard. Its  building  there  is  now  occupied  by  a  colored  Catholic 
congregation.  Since  1890  it  has  been  located  at  Forty-seventh 
Street  and  Kingsessing  Avenue,  West  Philadelphia.  Amid 
the  trying  times  of  1837  it  w^as  declared  vacant  by  the  Presby- 
tery of  Philadelphia,  but  it  continued  to  live  as  a  New^  School 
Church.  Rev.  W.  M.  Rice,  D.D.,  was  its  pastor  from  1864 
to  1874. 

The  Fifth  Church  was  organized  in  1813  and  w^orshiped 
first  in  a  chapel  on  Locust  Street  near  Eighth,  having  Dr. 
Thomas  H.  Skinner  as  pastor.  Its  location  is  now  occupied 
by  Musical  Fund  Hall.  A  church  was  built  on  the  south  side 
of  Arch  Street,  above  Tenth,  to  which  it  removed  in  1823. 
In  1850  the  Fifth  Church,  which  had  joined  the  New  School, 
was  disbanded  and  the  Arch  Street  Church,  Old  School,  was 
organized  as  its  successor  and  purchased  its  property.  Rev. 
Charles  Wadsworth,  D.D.,  became  its  first  pastor.  In  1901 
the  Arch  Street  Church  consolidated  wath  the  West  Arch 
Street  at  Eighteenth  and  Arch.  It  retained  its  name  and 
transferred  to  the  new  organization,  as  endowment,  the  pro- 
ceeds of  the  sale  of  its  property. 

The  Sixth  Church  w^as  organized  by  members  from  the 
Third,  in  the  old  State  House,  in  1814.  It  built  a  fine  brick 
edifice  on  the  north  side  of  Spruce  Street,  below  Sixth,  where 
for  nearly  sixty  years  it  exerted  a  potent  influence  on  the 
life  of  the  city.  Tw^o  of  its  noted  pastors  were  Dr.  William 
Neill  and  Dr.  Joseph  H.  Jones.  In  its  edifice,  sold  to  the 
city,  was  framed  the  present  state  constitution  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. Modified  and  reconstructed,  it  now  forms  the  Horace 
Binney  Public  School.  In  1873,  the  Sixth  Church  united  with 
the  Seventh  Church,  located  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Broad 
Street  and  Penn  Square. 

The  Seventh  Church  was  organized  in  1804  by  nine  Eng- 
lish Independents,  dismissed  from  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  as  a  Congregational  Church,  and  it  erected  what  it 


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called  the  "Independent  Tabernacle,"  in  Ranstead  Court, 
west  of  Fourth  Street,  between  Chestnut  and  ^larket,  where 
the  Bourse  now  stands.  In  1816  it  joined  the  Dutch  Reformed 
body  as  the  Second  Dutch  Reformed  Church.  In  1820  it  be- 
came Presbyterian;  its  first  pastor  as  such  being  Rev.  Wm. 
M.  Engles,  D.D.  It  was  popularly  known  as  "the  Assembly 
Church,"  inasmuch  as  the  General  Assembly  for  a  number 
of  successive  years  met  in  it.  From  it  went  out  in  1837  the 
New  School  Branch.  In  1840  there  was  merged  with  it,  by 
the  Presbytery,  the  "Assembly  Church,"  which  had  three 
years  previously  been  organized  from  members  of  the  Fourth 
Presbyterian  Church;  and  its  pastor.  Rev.  W.  L.  ]\IcCalla, 
became  pastor  of  the  Seventh  Church.  In  1842  it  removed 
to  Broad  Street  and  Penn  Square,  where  the  Betz  Building 
now  stands.  Its  pastor  then  was  the  distinguished  Dr.  Willis 
Lord.  In  1873,  when  the  Sixth  Church  united  with  it,  the 
name  '  *  Tabernacle, ' '  under  which  it  originally  organized,  was 
assumed.  It  was  with  this  church  also  that  the  General  As- 
sembly was  meeting  when  Southern  Commissioners  withdrew 
to  form  a  Southern  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1886,  during 
the  early  ministry  of  Rev.  Dr.  H.  C.  McCook,  Tabernacle 
Church  removed  to  its  present  location  at  Thirty-seventh  and 
Chestnut  Streets. 

The  Eighth  Presbyterian  Church  came  into  connection  with 
the  Presbyterian  body  in  1822.  It  was  previously  known,  as 
later,  as  the  Scots  Church,  and  assumed  the  name  "Eighth" 
but  for  a  short  time.  It  was  organized  as  an  Associate  Re- 
formed Church  about  1770.  It  first  worshiped  near  Fourth 
and  Shippen  (now  Bainbridge).  In  1770  a  church  was 
erected  on  Spruce  Street,  above  Third.  In  his  diary,  John 
Adams,  President  of  the  United  States,  relates  that  he  at- 
tended preaching  services  here,  and  it  is  an  interesting  his- 
torical fact  that  Louis  Philippe,  King  of  France,  lived  in 
the  adjoining  parsonage.  Between  the  years  1866  and  1884 
the  church  was  closed. 

In  1883,  the  congregation  united  with  the  South  Broad 
Street  Church,  organized  the  same  year  at  the  southeast  cor- 
ner of  Broad  Street  and  Castle  Avenue,  and  removed  thither. 


6  Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia. 

The  Ninth  Church  became  Presbyterian  in  1822,  and  as- 
sumed the  name  it  has  ever  since  borne.  It  had  been  organ- 
ized a  few  years  previously  as  an  Associate  Reformed  Church. 
It  was  located  on  Thirteenth  Street  north  of  ]\Iarket.  It 
continued  to  worship  here  until  1838,  when  some  of  the  origi- 
nal members,  desiring  to  return  to  their  first  love,  were  given 
possession  of  the  property.  The  main  portion  of  the  con- 
gregation withdrew,  and  after  worshiping  for  a  time  in  the 
Assembly  Building  at  Tenth  and  Chestnut,  located  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  Sixteenth  and  George  (now  Sansom) 
Streets,  where  the  church  remained  until  its  removal  in 
1911  to  Fifty-seventh  Street  and  Washington  Avenue,  West 
Philadelphia,  where  it  consolidated  with  the  Sherwood 
Church.  Dr.  William  Blackwood  was  its  pastor  for  forty 
years. 

The  Tenth  Church  grew  out  of  the  Sixth,  being  organized 
in  its  session  room  in  March,  1829.  It  located  on  the  north- 
east corner  of  Twelfth  and  Walnut  Streets  and  there  re- 
mained until  merged  (retaining  its  name)  with  its  daughter, 
the  West  Spruce  Street  Church,  at  the  corner  of  Seventeenth 
and  Spruce  in  1895.  Dr.  Henry  A.  Boardman  was  the  hon- 
ored pastor  of  this  church  for  more  than  forty  years. 

The  Eleventh  Church  was  organized  in  November,  1828; 
and,  for  a  time,  worshiped  at  the  corner  of  Juniper  and  Race 
Streets.  Later  a  church  was  erected  on  Vine  Street,  above 
Eleventh.  In  1853  it  removed  to  Eighteenth  and  Arch  and 
assumed  the  name  of  "West  Arch  Street  Church."  Con- 
solidation with  Arch  Street  Church  and  assumption  of  its 
name  took  place  in  1901. 

The  Twelfth  Presbyterian  Church  was  the  name  for  a  time 
borne  by  a  church  on  Cedar  Street  (now  South)  below 
Twelfth.  It  was  a  secession  from  a  church  organized  in  1818 
on  Catherine  Street  between  Sixth  and  Seventh  as  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Moyamensing,  and  chartered  in  1821 
as  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Southwark.  After  a  time 
the  Twelfth  reorganized  and  in  1841  was  incorporated  as  the 
Cedar  Street  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1881,  it  removed  to 
Wharton  Street  above  Broad,  and  amended  its  charter  to  read 


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"The  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  Atonement."  In  1898,  it 
consolidated  with  the  South  Church,  organized  in  1849  and 
located  on  Third  Street  below  Federal,  under  the  name  of 
''Atonement-South."  In  1910  the  latter  united  with  the 
Scots  Church,  at  Broad  Street  and  Castle  Avenue.  Hence 
Scots  Church  will  be  seen  to  be  the  successor  of  an  Associate 
Reformed  Church,  of  the  Eighth  Church,  of  Faith  IMission 
of  the  Tenth  Church,  South  Broad  Street  Church,  South 
Church,  the  Twelfth  Church  and  the  Church  of  the  Atone- 
ment. No  other  church  in  the  city  combines  so  many  historic 
elements. 

The  Thirteenth  Presbyterian  Church  had  but  a  brief  ex- 
istence and  seemed  to  have  been  entirely  forgotten.  It  has 
recently  been  discovered  that  it  was  organized  in  1836  by  the 
Third  Presbji;ery  of  Philadelphia  and  was  located  at  Ashton 
and  Schuylkill-Lombard  Streets.  In  1838  it  applied  to  and 
was  received  by  the  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  (0.  S.).  It 
had  as  pastor  Rev.  Charles  Williamson  from  1839  to  1843 
with  location  at  Schuylkill  Front  and  Lombard.  Owing  to 
financial  embarrassments  the  Presbytery,  in  October,  1843, 
directed  its  session  "to  convene  with  a  view  to  coming  to  a 
conclusion  as  to  the  formal  dissolution  of  the  church."  Its 
name  does  not  appear  on  the  minutes  of  the  Assembly  the 
following  year.  It  has  been  learned  that  its  building  was 
sold  to  the  Second  Associate  Reformed  Church,  which  effected 
an  organization  in  that  locality,  and  it  is  probable  that  most 
of  its  members  united  with  it,  which  later  became  the  Fourth 
United  Presbyterian  Church. 

The  Fourteenth  Presbyterian  Church,  similarly  to  the  Thir- 
teenth, seemed,  also,  to  have  been  consigned,  for  some  years, 
to  oblivion.  Its  discovery  was  due,  partly  at  least,  to  the 
unearthing  of  the  spade  and  the  revelation  of  an  ancient 
document.  In  the  city's  process  of  grading  and  leveling  for 
a  park  in  the  vicinity  of  Seventh  and  Lombard  Streets  the 
remains  of  a  marble  slab  were  found  on  which  was  the  in- 
scription, "The  Fourteenth  Presbyterian  Church.  Founded 
1823.  Enlarged  1837."  Research  showed  that  the  "Second 
African   Presbyterian   Church,"  organized  about  the  above- 


8  Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia. 

mentioned  date,  was  located  near  the  place.  The  surmise  that 
it  may  have  assumed  the  name  of  ''Fourteenth  Presbyterian 
Church"  instead  of  "Second  African,"  as  described  in  eccle- 
siastical records,  was  confirmed  by  the  discovery  of  the  fol- 
lowing paragraph  in  the  Philadelphia  Observer  of  March 
1837,  the  year  it  cast  in  its  lot  with  the  New  School  Branch, 
and  is  recorded  as  having  enlarged  its  building:  "The  Sec- 
ond Presbyterian  church  of  color  have  commenced  enlarging 
their  building  and  appeal  for  help  to  their  friends."  The 
building  occupied  was  originally  the  house  of  worship  of  the 
First  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church. 

The  church  was  disbanded  in  1862,  having  previously  con- 
tributed over  eighty  members  to  form  the  Lombard  Street 
Central  Church,  organized  in  1844,  near  Eighth  and  Car- 
penter Streets,  now  located  on  Lombard  Street  below  Ninth. 

The  Fifteenth  Presbyterian  Church  was  constituted  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  in  1850,  largely  out  of  members 
from  the  Union  Church  on  Thirteenth  Street,  near  Spruce. 
For  a  few  years  it  worshiped  in  a  hall  at  the  corner  of  Fif- 
teenth and  Market  Streets,  while  its  church  was  being  built 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  Fifteenth  and  Lombard.  Having 
removed  thither,  it  there  remained  until  1884,  when  it  con- 
solidated with  the  West  Tasker  Street  Mission,  sold  its  prop- 
erty, and  moved  to  Eighteenth  and  Tasker,  and  changed  its 
name  to  ' '  Church  of  the  Evangel. ' ' 

This  was  the  last  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  city  to  as- 
sume a  number  as  its  name. 

"We  will  now  go  back  and  review  the  churches,  which,  in 
the  meantime,  were  organized  in  the  city  and  took  other  names 
than  numbers  or  numbers  with  a  distinction  of  locality  or 
character. 

The  first  of  these  to  be  organized  was  the  "First  African 
Presbyterian,"  organized  in  1807,  largely,  it  is  said,  through 
the  influence  of  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander,  then  pastor  of  the 
Third  Presbyterian  Church.  It  was  located  at  the  corner  of 
Seventh  and  Shippen,  now  Bainbridge,  and  was  the  first 
African  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States.  It  is  now 
located  at  Seventeenth  and  Fitzwater. 


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A  Third  African  Presbyterian  was  org:anize(l  in  18;^')  and 
disbanded  in  1841. 

The  First  ('hureh  ol"  Northern  Liberties,  named  from  a 
district  then  beyond  tiie  city  limits,  was  organized  in  1813 
as  the  result  of  missionary  efforts  carried  on  for  a  number 
of  years  by  the  Second  Church,  then  located  at  Third  and 
Arch.  Its  first  location  was  at  what  is  now  Second  Street 
and  Fairmount  Avenue.  It  was  known  then  as  the  Camping- 
ton  Church.  It  later  moved  to  its  present  locality,  south  side 
of  Buttonwood,  below  Sixth.  Here  was  established,  it  is 
claimed,  in  1815,  the  first  Bible  Sunday  school  in  Philadel- 
phia. The  present  church  building  was  erected  in  1833.  From 
this  church  sprang  a  group  of  churches. 

The  North  Church  was  organized  in  1825  on  Third  Street 
below  Green  as  the  Second  Church  of  Northern  Liberties. 
Soon  after,  a  second  colony  was  organized  as  the  Third  Church 
of  Northern  Liberties.  It  worshiped  on  Poplar  Street,  above 
Green.  In  1831  the  two  united  under  the  name  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Penn  township,  which  was  later 
changed  to  North  Presbyterian  Church,  and  was  located  on 
Sixth  Street  above  Green,  where  it  remained  until  its  removal 
in  1901  to  Broad  and  Allegheny  Avenue. 

The  present  Temple  Church  ow^es  its  origin  to  certain  mem- 
bers who  withdrew  from  the  North  Church  in  1835  and  or- 
ganized the  Central  Presbyterian  Church  of  Northern  Lib- 
erties. It  worshiped  for  a  time  on  Third  Street  below  Green, 
and  then  removed  to  Coates  Street,  now^  Fairmount  Avenue, 
below  Fourth.  During  the  sixties  removal  was  effected  to 
Franklin  and  Thompson  Streets,  and  in  1872  its  name  was 
changed  to  Temple  Church. 

Through  the  missionary  efforts  of  Dr.  Thos.  L.  Janeway, 
pastor  of  the  North  Church,  was  organized  in  1849  "Penn 
Church"  on  Tenth  Street  near  Girard  Avenue.  Its  name  was 
changed  to  North  Tenth  about  1868. 

Northeast  of  the  above  group  of  churches,  was  organized, 
in  1815,  in  what  was  known  as  Fishtown  and  later  as  Ken- 
sington, the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Kensington.  It 
was  first  located  on  Palmer  Street,  near  Queen,  and  later  on 


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Girard  Avenue  above  Hanover.  In  a  comparatively  brief  time 
it  grew  under  the  ministry  of  Rev.  George  Chandler  from 
nine  members  to  nine  hundred.  From  it  was  organized,  in 
1867,  Bethesda  Church. 

South  and  west  of  the  Northern  Liberties  group  of  churches 
were  organized,  a  few  years  later,  two  prominent  Presbyterian 
churches.  The  first  was  the  Central  Church,  organized  in 
Whitfield  Academy  on  Fourth  Street  in  1832,  by  a  colony 
from  the  Second  Church.  It  built  on  the  corner  of  Eighth 
and  Cherry  and  remained  there  until  1876,  when  it  removed 
to  Broad  Street  and  Fairmount  Avenue,  where  it  had  as  its 
pastor  Dr.  John  H.  Munro.  It  united  with  the  North  Broad 
Street  Church  in  1908  to  form  the  Central-North  Broad 
Street  Church.  It  was  through  the  missionary  efforts  of  the 
Central  Church  that  the  Cohocksink  Church,  at  Franklin 
Street  and  Columbia  Avenue,  was  organized  in  1840.  Dr. 
Wm.  Henry  Green,  of  Princeton,  had  the  Central  as  his  only 
pastorate. 

The  Spring  Garden  Church  was  organized  on  the  east  side 
of  Eleventh  Street,  near  Spring  Garden,  in  1846,  and  to  it 
was  transferred,  as  its  first  pastor.  Rev.  John  McDowell, 
D.D.,  pastor  of  the  Central  Church.  It  remained  in  its  first 
location  until  1892,  when  it  consolidated  with  the  Columbia 
Avenue-Fairmount  Church,  at  Twenty-first  Street  and  Colum- 
bia Avenue,  which  had  grown  from  a  Sunday  school,  estab- 
lished by  members  of  the  Spring  Garden  Church.  The  united 
church  took  the  name  of  the  first  distinguished  pastor  of  the 
Spring  Garden  Church,  and  is  known  as  the  McDowell 
Memorial  Church. 

A  Central  Spring  Garden  Church  was  organized  in  1842 
by  the  New  School  branch,  but  it  does  not  seem  to  have  long 
survived. 

An  Independent  Presb3^terian  Church  was  organized  in 
1826  by  members  who  withdrew  from  the  Ninth  Church  that 
they  might  have  the  Rev.  John  Chambers  as  their  pastor.  The 
church  located  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Broad  and  Sansom 
Streets,  where  the  North  American  Building  now  stands.  In 
1873,  it  united  with  the  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  and  took 


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the  name  of  the  Chambers  Church,  in  honor  of  its  distin- 
guished pastor.  In  1897  it  united  with  the  Wylie  :\Iemorial 
Church,  located  on  the  east  side  of  Broad  Street,  below  Spruce, 
which  had  been  organized  in  1798  at  South  and  Penn  Streets 
as  the  First  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  and  which  had 
joined  the  Presbyterian  body  in  1885,  to  form  the  Chambers- 
Wylie  .Memorial  Presbyterian  Church. 

The  ^Mariners'  Church,  especially  for  seamen,  was  organ- 
ized as  early  as  1830.  It  was  located  on  Water  Street  above 
Walnut.  Later  it  removed  to  its  present  location,  P'ront 
Street  above  Pine. 

The  Union  Church  was  organized  in  Carpenters'  Hall,  cor- 
ner of  Thirteenth  and  Race  Streets,  in  1840,  by  a  number  of 
members  of  the  Ninth  Church.  Later  it  located  on  Thirteenth 
below  Spruce,  where  it  remained  until  its  removal  to  Sixty- 
sixth  Street  and  Woodland  Avenue,  West  Philadelphia,  in 
1899.     It  was  dissolved  in  1913. 

Two  churches  that  passed  out  of  existence  some  years  since 
were  the  *' Western  Presbyterian,"  organized  about  1835,  at 
Seventeenth  and  Filbert  Streets,  which  in  1873  united  with 
the  Third  Reformed  (Dutch)  Church  at  Tenth  and  Filbert  to 
form  "Immanuel  Presbyterian  Church,"  and  the  Clinton 
Street  Presbyterian  Church,  organized  in  1842  at  the  north- 
east comer  of  Tenth  and  Clinton  Streets  by  twenty-six  mem- 
bers from  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  The  above  two 
churches  —  ' '  Immanuel ' '  and  ' '  Clinton  Street ' '  —  united  in 
1878  to  form  the  Clinton  Street-Immanuel,  located  at  Tenth 
and  Clinton  Streets,  having  Dr.  Charles  Wadsworth  as  pastor. 
It  disbanded  in  1898. 

Another  church  which  went  out  of  existence  in  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  city  was  the  First  Church  of  Moyamensing, 
organized  in  1818,  and  chartered  in  1821,  as  the  First  Church 
of  Southwark.  It  was  located  on  Catherine  Street  above 
Sixth.  It  was  known  later  as  the  German  Street  Church.  It 
disbanded  in  1891  and  sixty-five  members  were  transferred  to 
the  membership  of  the  Third,  or  ''Old  Pine"  Street,  Church, 
and  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  its  property  were  added  to 
the  endowment  of  said  church. 


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Another  Moyamensing  church  was  organized  in  1858,  on 
Carpenter  Street  below  Tenth,  as  the  outgrowth  of  the  Moya- 
mensing Mission  of  the  Tenth  Church.  Six  years  later  it  was 
dissolved.  The  Sunday  school,  however,  was  kept  up  as  a 
mission  of  the  Tenth  Church,  and  out  of  it  grew  the  Harriet 
Hollond  Memorial  Church,  at  Broad  and  Federal  Streets, 
which  was  organized  in  1882. 

Two  other  churches  in  the  southern  part  of  the  city  lost 
their  identity  through  consolidation — Wharton  Street,  organ- 
ized in  1863,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Ninth  and  Wharton; 
and  a  second  South  Broad  Street  Church,  organized  in  1896 
on  Broad  Street  near  Wolf.  These  united  a  few  years  since 
to  form  tlie  James  Evans  Memorial  at  Broad  Street  and 
Moyamensing  Avenue. 

The  Westminster  Church  was  organized  in  1853  and  was 
located  at  the  corner  of  Broad  and  Fitzwater  Streets  until 
1906,  when  it  sold  its  property  and  removed  to  West  Phila- 
delphia and  consolidated  with  the  Greenway  Church  at  Fifty- 
eighth  Street  and  Chester  Avenue,  retaining  its  name. 

Other  Presbyterian  churches  in  South  Philadelphia  which 
have  not  come  properly  in  our  purview,  are  Southwestern, 
at  Twentieth  and  Fitzwater,  organized  in  1853 ;  Bethany,  at 
Twenty-second  and  Bainbridge,  organized  in  I860;  Green- 
wich Street,  organized  in  1867 ;  Tabor,  at  Eighteenth  and 
Christian,  organized  in  1868 ;  Grace  at  Twenty-second  and 
Federal,  organized  in  1878;  Peace  (German),  at  Tenth  and 
Snyder  Avenue,  organized  in  1885;  Hope,  Thirty-third  and 
Wharton,  organized  1891 ;  IMizpah,  Eighth  and  Wolf,  organ- 
ized as  Meadow  Church,  1894;  First  Italian,  Tenth  Street 
above  Washington  Avenue,  organized  1903;  John  Chambers' 
^Memorial,  Twenty-eighth  and  Morris,  established  1902.  The 
only  Presbyterian  Church  south  of  Market  Street  not  here- 
tofore referred  to,  is  Calvary,  at  Fifteenth  and  Locust  Streets, 
organized  in  1853,  and  having  had,  since  1870,  two  of  its 
pastors,  Drs.  Humphrey  and  Dickey,  moderators  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly. 

The  first  Presbyterian  Church  to  be  organized  in  West 
Philadelphia  was  Walnut  Street  in  1840.     It  retains  its  first 


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location,  on  Walnut  Street  between  Thirty-ninth  and  Fortieth 
Streets. 

Noi-thminster  was  organized  as  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  iMantua  in  1846.  It  was  located  at  the  comer 
of  Thirty-fifth  and  Spring  Garden  Streets.  In  1875  it  re- 
moved to  its  present  location  at  Thirty-fifth  and  Baring 
Streets  and  changed  its  name  to  Northminster. 

West  Hope  Church  was  organized  as  the  Second  ^lantua 
in  1864,  and  was  at  first  located  on  Lancaster  Avenue  near 
Holley  Street.  It  moved  to  its  present  location.  Aspen  Street 
above  Fortieth,  in  1876  and  clianged  its  name  to  West  Hope 
in  1888. 

Princeton  Church  was  organized  as  the  ''Lexington  Street 
Church"  in  "Westminster,"  West  Philadelphia,  in  1853.  In 
1857  it  was  moved  to  Thirty-ninth  Street  near  Powelton 
Avenue.  In  1858  it  removed  to  the  corner  of  Saunders  and 
Powelton  Avenues  and  took  its  present  name. 

West  Park  was  originally  Hestonville  Church  and  w^as 
located  on  Lancaster  Avenue,  near  Fifty-second  Street.  It 
was  organized  in  1859.  It  changed  its  name  in  1882  and  its 
location  to  Lansdowne  Avenue  and  Fifty-fourth  Street  about 
1897.  Its  former  property  is  now  occupied  as  a  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

A  former  church  of  the  Philadelphia  Presbytery  was 
known  as  "Belmont."  It  was  located  on  Belmont  Avenue 
near  city  line.  It  was  first  organized  in  1854  and  "newly 
organized"  in  1858  and  liad  Dr.  Nathanael  West  as  pastor. 
It  was  disbanded  in  1878. 

The  Patterson  Memorial  Church,  Sixty-third  and  Vine 
Streets,  was  organized  as  the  Sixty-third  Street  Presbyterian 
Church  in  1880.     It  took  its  present  name  in  1884. 

Emmanuel  Church,  Forty-second  Street  and  Girard  Ave- 
nue, grew^  from  a  mission  Sunday  school  of  the  Walnut  Street 
Church  first  held  in  the  Centennial  Hotel,  Forty-first  Street 
above  Girard  Avenue.  It  was  known  as  the  Elm  Avenue 
Mission.  In  1889  it  moved  to  4122  Girard  Avenue,  where  the 
church  was  organized  in  1893  and  took  the  name  of  "Em- 
manuel."   It  removed  to  its  present  location  in  January,  1895. 


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The  Tennent  Memorial  Church,  at  Fifty-second  and  Arch 
Streets,  organized  in  1897,  had  as  its  first  location  Fifty- 
seventh  and  Market  Streets  and  was  known  as  the  "Zion- 
Fifty-seventh  Street  Church." 

The  Baldwin  Church,  organized  in  1904,  at  Sixtieth  and 
Walnut  Streets,  and  the  Genevan  Church,  organized  in  1904 
at  Fifty-seventh  and  Arch  Streets,  were  consolidated  in  1911 
as  the  Richardson  Memorial  Church  and  is  located  on  Walnut 
Street  near  Sixtieth. 

Overbrook  Church,  Lancaster  and  City  Avenues,  was  or- 
ganized by  Philadelphia  North  Presbytery  in  1890.  It  was 
transferred  to  Philadelphia  Presbytery  in  1904. 

The  following  additional  churches  are  located  in  West 
Philadelphia :  Bethany  Temple,  Fifty-third  and  Spruce 
Streets,  organized  1906 ;  Calvin,  Sixtieth  and  Master  Streets, 
organized  1902;  J.  Addison  Henry  Memorial,  Sixty-fifth 
Street  and  Lansdowne  Avenue,  organized  1906 ;  Second 
Italian,  Simpson  and  Westminster  Avenues,  organized  1910 ; 
St.  Paul,  Fiftieth  Street  and  Baltimore  Avenue,  organized 
1899 ;  Woodland,  Forty-second  and  Pine  Streets,  organ- 
ized 1866. 

East  of  the  Schuylkill  River  and  north  of  Market  Street 
were  formerly  several  churches  which  ceased  to  exist  in  name 
some  years  since. 

The  Fairmount  Church  was  organized  in  1832  and  was 
said  to  be  located  "near  the  water  works  in  the  village  of 
Morrisville  in  the  vicinity  of  Philadelphia."  A  fine  church 
building  was  dedicated  in  February,  1834,  Drs.  John  Mc- 
Dowell, C.  C.  Cuyler  and  Ezra  Stiles  Ely  preaching  sermons. 
The  locality  corresponded  to  the  present  Twenty-third  Street 
above  Callowhill.  Services  were  maintained  here  until  about 
1848,  when  the  building  was  sold  to  the  city  for  a  public 
school.  The  present  "Thomas  Wood  Public  School"  stands 
on  the  site.  Thomas  Wood  was  an  elder  in  the  Fairmount 
Church  and  later  an  elder  in  the  North  Broad  Street  Church, 
of  Avhose  pastor,  the  Rev.  Charles  Wadsworth,  Jr.,  D.D.,  he 
was  the  father-in-law.  In  1849  Fairmount  congregation  built 
and  dedicated  a  church  at  Twentieth  and  Vine  Streets,  Revs. 


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Albert  Barnes  and  John  Chambers  preach injjf  dedication  ser- 
mons. Worship  was  maintained  here  until  1875,  the  ehun-h 
being  commonly  known  as  "the  Loo^an  Square  Presbyterian 
Church."  It  had  as  pastor  for  a  time  Rev.  Charles  Brown, 
afterwards  secretary  of  ^Ministerial  Relief.  In  1875  the 
church  was  sold  to  Alexander  Kerr,  and  was  occupied  by 
the  Second  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church.  The  past  year 
it  was  condemned  by  the  city  to  make  way  for  the  Boulevard 
and  torn  down.  In  1882  a  portion  of  the  funds  obtained 
were  turned  over  to  the  Columbia  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Twenty-first  Street  and  Cohunbia  Avenue,  with  which 
a  number  of  the  members  of  the  church  had  united,  and  that 
church  took  the  name  of  the  "Columbia  Avenue-Fairmount 
Church."  It  continued  to  bear  this  name  until  it  consoli- 
dated with  the  Sprinc:  Garden  Church  in  1892  and  the  name 
of  ^IcDowell  ^Memorial,  in  honor  of  a  former  pastor  of  the 
Sprin<]:  Garden  Church  was  assumed. 

The  Covenant  Presbyterian  Church,  located  on  Twenty- 
second  Street  above  Vine  Street,  was  organized  as  the  Second 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  in  1835.  In  1885  it  united, 
along  with  its  pastor.  Dr.  William  Sterrett,  with  the  Phila- 
delphia Central  Presbytery  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  un- 
der the  name  of  the  Covenant  Presbyterian  Church.  In 
September,  1908,  it  consolidated  with  Olivet  Church,  organ- 
ized 1856  at  Twenty-second  and  ]\Iount  Vernon  Streets  and 
took  the  name  of  Olivet-Covenant  Church. 

Previous  to  the  aforesaid  Covenant  Church  joining  the 
Presbyterian  body,  a  church  by  the  name  of  "Covenant" 
was  organized  in  the  spring  of  1877  by  the  Philadelphia  Cen- 
tral Presbyter\^  It  consisted  of  "certain  persons  residing 
in  the  vicinity  of  Seventeenth  and  Jefferson  Streets,"  who 
had  formerly  been  members  of  the  North  United  Presby- 
terian Church.  The  organization  was  disbanded  in  ]\Iav, 
1881. 

The  Northwestern  Presbyterian  Church,  located  at  Nine- 
teenth and  Master  Streets,  was  organized  September  2,  1878. 
It  possessed  a  property  formerly  belonging  to  Congregational- 
ists.     Not  being  able  to  maintain  itself,  it  was  dissolved  in 


16  Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia. 

1883,  having  been  in  existence  but  five  years.  Its  property 
is  now  occupied  by  Baptists. 

A  Lehigh  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  was  organized  in 
1875  at  Sixth  Street  and  Lehigh  Avenue.  It  was  dissolved 
the  next  year.  In  October,  1877,  a  church  of  the  same  name 
in  the  same  locality  was  organized.  Its  name  was  afterwards 
changed  to  ''Hodge  Memorial."  In  1882  it  moved  to  Sus- 
quehanna Avenue  and  Marshall  Street  and  subsequently 
changed  its  name  to  the  Susquehanna  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Two  other  churches  in  the  northeastern  section  of  the  city 
gave  up  their  names,  and,  to  an  extent,  their  identity,  through 
consolidation.  One  was  the  Kensington  Church,  located  at 
Frankford  and  Girard  Avenues,  which  was  organized  as  an 
Associate  Reformed  Church  in  1844,  and  joined  the  Presby- 
terian body  with  its  pastor.  Dr.  Wm.  0.  Johnstone,  in  1853. 
The  other  church  was  the  York  Street  Church  at  York  and 
Coral  Streets.  It  was  organized  in  1849  as  the  Fifth  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Church  and  joined  the  Presbyterian 
body  in  1881.  These  two  churches  consolidated  in  1892  un- 
der the  name  of  the  Union  Tabernacle,  with  Dr.  Robert  Hun- 
ter as  pastor,  and  is  located  at  York  and  Coral  Streets. 

The  George  Chandler  Mission  Church  was  organized  in  the 
Kensington  district  in  1872  and  was  dissolved  in  1879.  The 
Cumberland  Street  Church  was  organized  in  the  same  locality 
the  summer  of  1881.  Its  name  was  changed  to  "Chandler 
Memorial"  in  1883  and  again  in  1885  to  "Beacon."  It  is 
located  at  Cumberland  and  Cedar  Streets. 

Oxford  Church,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Broad  and  Ox- 
ford Streets,  was  organized  in  1867.  A  chapel  had  previously 
been  erected  and  in  1866  a  Sunday  school  was  organized  by 
the  union  of  two  schools  previously  conducted  at  Twelfth 
Street  and  Montgomery  Avenue  and  Seventeenth  Street  and 
Montgomery  Avenue.  It  took  the  name  of  the  ' '  Carmel  Pres- 
byterian Sunday  School."  When  a  charter  for  the  church 
was  obtained  the  name  was  changed  to  "Oxford." 

Gaston  Church,  organized  in  1876,  was  located  for  five 
years  at  Germantown  Avenue  and  Huntingdon  Street.     It 


Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia.  17 

removed  to  its  present  loeatioii,  Eleventh  Street  and  Lehigh 
Avenue,  in  1883. 

The  Tioga  Church  was  organized  in  tlie  Rising  Sun  Seliool- 
house  in  1859.  It  occupied  its  present  edifice,  Tioga  Street 
below  Sixteenth  Street,  in  1866.  For  some  years  it  was 
called  the  Kenderton  Church.  The  name  was  clianged  in 
1874. 

The  Bethlehem  Church,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Broad 
and  Diamond  Streets,  was  organized  in  1873  as  the  Broad  and 
Diamond  Streets  church.  The  name  was  changed  to  Bethle- 
hem in  1877. 

The  West  Green  Street  Church,  at  the  northwest  corner  of 
Nineteenth  and  Green  Streets,  was  organized  in  1858.  It  had 
as  its  first  corporate  name,  ''The  Alexander  Church,"  in 
honor  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander,  first  professor 
in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  It  was  changed  to  West 
Green  Street  in  the  early  nineties. 

The  First  German  Presbyterian  Church  was  organized  at 
School  and  How^ard  Streets  in  1860.  It  later  erected  a  church 
edifice  on  Otter  Street  and  for  some  time  worshiped  there. 
The  church  having  ])een  dissolved,  the  edifice  was  sold,  by 
order  of  Philadelphia  Central  Presbytery,  and  a  building 
on  Corinthian  Avenue  below  Poplar  Street  purchased  with 
the  proceeds.  Here  the  Second  German  Presbyterian  Church 
was  organized  in  March,  1877.  The  name  was  changed  to 
''Corinthian  Avenue"  in  1879. 

The  latest  consolidation  of  churches  in  the  city  has  been  that 
of  East  Park,  Thirty-second  Street  below  Berks  Street,  organ- 
ized in  1896,  and  Knox,  at  Twenty-fifth  Street  and  Indiana 
Avenue,  organized  in  1913.  The  church  is  known  as  East 
Park,  located  at  Twenty-fifth  Street  and  Indiana  Avenue. 

The  following  are  additional  churches  north  of  IMarket 
Street  belonging  to  Philadelphia  Presbytery:  Berean,  South 
College  Avenue  and  Nineteenth  Street,  organized  1880; 
Bethel,  Nineteenth  and  York  Streets,  organized  1899 ; 
Bethesda,  Frankford  Avenue  and  Berks  Street,  organized 
1867;  Carmel,  Nineteenth  Street  and  Susquehanna  Avenue, 
organized  1880;  Green  Hill,  Girard  Avenue  above  Sixteenth 


18  Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia. 

Street,  organized  1846;  Harper  Memorial,  Twenty-ninth 
and  Susquehanna  Avenue,  organized  1892;  Hebron  Me- 
morial, Twenty-fifth  and  Thompson  Streets,  organized  1884; 
Mutchmore  Memorial,  Eighteenth  Street  and  IMontgomery 
Avenue,  organized  1880;  Magyar,  Franklin  and  Thomp- 
son Streets,  organized  1908;  Ontario  Street,  Ontario  and 
H  Streets,  organized  1910;  Puritan,  Second  and  Clearfield 
Streets,  organized  1893 ;  Richmond,  Richmond  below  Ann 
Streets,  organized  1845;  Trinity,  Frankford  Avenue  and 
Cambria  Streets,  organized  1861;  Zion,  Twenty-eighth  and 
Mt.  Pleasant  Streets,  organized  1882. 

North  of  Erie  Avenue  and  Nicetown  Road  are  twenty-nine 
churches  of  the  city  connected  with  Philadelphia  North 
Presbytery. 

The  oldest  is  Market  Square,  Germantown,  located  on 
Germantown  Avenue  near  School  Lane.  It  was  organized 
as  a  German  Reformed  Church  in  1732.  It  became  Presby- 
terian in  1856. 

The  First  Church  of  Frankford,  Frankford  Avenue  and 
Church  Street,  was  organized  in  1770  as  a  German  Reformed 
Church  and  formed  for  a  time  a  pastoral  charge  with  Mar- 
ket Square,  Germantown.     It  became  Presbyterian  in  1807. 

The  First  Church  of  Germantown  was  organized  as  "The 
English  Presbyterian  Church  of  Germantown"  in  1810.  Its 
temporal  affairs  were  governed  by  a  "vestry"  of  twenty-six 
members,  of  which  the  elders  were  members  ex-officio.  Its 
first  location  was  on  Germantown  Avenue,  where  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  now  stands.  It  removed  to  its 
present  location  on  Chelten  Avenue  west  of  Germantown 
Avenue  in  1872. 

Wakefield,  Germantown  Avenue,  organized  1873.  ]\Iac- 
alester  Memorial,  Torresdale,  1874.  Ann  Carmichael  Me- 
morial, Fifth  Street  and  Erie  Avenue,  1877.  Leverington, 
Roxborough,  1878.  Mt.  Airy,  Germantown  and  Mt.  Pleas- 
ant Avenues,  1880.  Benson  Memorial,  Fox  Chase,  1883.  Dis- 
ston  Memorial,  Tacony,  1886.  Lawndale,  1888.  Redeemer, 
Chew  and  Wister  Streets,  Germantown,  1888.  Wissinoming, 
1888.    Trinity,  Chestnut  Hill,  1889.    Oak  Lane,  1891.    West- 


Presbyterian  Churches  of  Philadelphia.  19 

side,  Winona  and  Pulaski  Avenues,  Germantown,  1892. 
Summit,  Greene  Street  and  Westside  Avenue,  Germantown, 
1894.     Wissahickon,  Ridge  and  ]\Ianayunk  Avenues,  1894. 

The  First  Church  of  Manayunk  was  organized  as  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Koxborough  township  in  1832. 

The  Roxborough  Church  was  organized  as  a  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church  in  1836.  It  was  received  into  the  Second 
Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  in  1854. 

The  First  Church  of  Bridesburg  was  organized  in  1837 
by  a  colony  from  the  Frankford  Church. 

The  First  Church  of  Chestnut  Hill  w^as  organized  in  1852. 

The  Ilolmesburg  Church,  an  offshoot  of  the  Frankford 
Church,  was  organized  in  1853. 

Germantown  Second  Church,  at  Tulpohocken  and  Greene 
Streets,  was  organized  in  1856. 

Falls  of  Schuylkill  Church,  located  on  Ridge  Avenue,  was 
organized  in  1856. 

Those  later  organized,  with  their  dates,  are  as  follows : 

Ilermon,  Frankford  Avenue  and  Harrison  Street,  Frank- 
ford, 1868.  Olney,  Tabor  Road  and  Third  Street,  1898. 
Holy  Trinity,  Eleventh  and  Rockland  Streets,  Logan,  1909. 
Covenant,  Limekiln  Pike  and  Chelten  Avenue,  Germantown, 
1910. 

July,  1914. 


INDEX 


CHURCHES. 


PAGE.         CHURCHES. 


PAGE. 


First,     1 

First  African,     8 

First  German,     17 

First,  Germantown,     18 

First  Italian,     12 

First,  Kensington,    9 

First,  Manayunk,    19 

First  Mantua,     13 

First,  Moyamensing,    6,  11 

First,  Northern  Liberties,  ....       9 

First,  Penn    Township,    9 

First,  Southwark,     6,  11 

Second,     2 

Second  African,   7 

Second  German,   17 

Second,  Germantown,     19 

Second  Italian, 14 

Second,  Northern  Liberties,   ...      9 

Second  Mantua,    13 

Third,     3 

Third  African     9 

Third,  Northern  Liberties,    ...        9 

Fourth,     4 

Fifth,    5 

Sixth,    4,  5,  6 

Seventh,     4,  5 

Eighth,     5 

Ninth,     6 

Tenth,     6 

Eleventh,     ,  6 

Twelfth,    6,  7 

Thirteenth,     7 

Fourteenth,    7 

Fifteenth,    8 

Alexander,      17 

Ann  Carmichael    18 

Arch  Street,     4,  6 

Assembly    5 

Atonement,    7 

Atonement-South,     7 

Baldwin,     14 

Beacon    16 

Belmont,     13 

Benson  Memorial,    18 

Berean 17 


Bethany,     12 

Bethany  Temple,    14 

Bethel,    17 

Bethesda,    10,  17 

Bethlehem,     17 

Bridesburg,    19 

Buttonwood,    2 

Calvary,    12 

Calvin     14 

Campington,    9 

Carmel     16,  17 

Cedar   Street,    6 

Central,    10 

Central-North  Broad  Street. .  .  10 

Central,  Northern  Liberties  ...  9 

Chambers,     11 

Chambers'  Memorial   12 

Chamber  s-Wylie, 11 

Chandler    Memorial,    16 

Chestnut  Hill, 19 

Clinton  Street     11 

Clinton  Street — Immanuel,     .  .  11 

Cohocksink,    10 

Columbia  Avenue     15 

Columbia  Avenue — Fairmount 

10,  15 

Corinthian  Avenue     17 

Covenant,     15 

Covenant,  Germantown,   19 

Cumberland  Street,    16 

Disston  Memorial,    18 

East  Park,     17 

Emmanuel,     13 

English     18 

Evans'  Memorial,     12 

Evangel,     8 

Fairmount,     14 

Falls  of  Schuylkill,     39 

Frankford,     18 

Gaston,     16 

Genevan,     14 

German  Street,     11 

Grace,     12 

Green  Hill,    17 

Greenway,    12 


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Index 


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CHURCHES.  PAGE. 

Greenwich,     1- 

Harper  Memorial,    18 

Hebron  Memorial,    18 

Henry  Memorial,    14 

Hernion    19 

Hestonville,    13 

Hodge  Memorial     16 

Hollond   Memorial    12 

Holmesburgf,    19 

Holy  Trinity,    19 

Hope,    1- 

Immanuel,    11 

Independent,     10 

Independent  Tabernacle   5 

Kenderton,     17 

Kensington,     16 

Knox,    17 

Lawndale   18 

Lehigh  Avenue,    16 

Leverington,    18 

Lexington  Street, 13 

Logan  Square,    15 

Lombard  Street  Central,    ....  8 

MacAlister  Memorial    18 

McDowell  Memorial,    15 

Magyar,    18 

Mariners',     11 

Market  Square,     18 

Meadow,     12 

Mizpah,    12 

Mt.  Airy,     18 

Moyamensing    12 

Mutchmore  Memorial,   18 

North,     9 

North  Broad  Street,    14 

Northminster,    13 

North  Tenth,     9 

Northwestern,    15 

Oak  Lane,      18 

Olney,     19 

Olivet,     15 

Olivet-Covenant,    15 

Ontario  Street    18 

Overbrook    14 

Oxford,     16 


CHURCHES.  PAGE. 

Patterson  Memorial     13 

Peace,     12 

Penn,    9 

Princeton,    13 

Puritan,    18 

Redeemer,    18 

Richardson  Memorial,    14 

Richmond,    18 

Roxborough,     19 

Scots,     5,  7 

Sherwood 6 

Sixty-Third  Street,    13 

South,     7 

South  Broad  Street, 5,  7,  12 

Southwestern,    12 

Spring  Garden    10 

St.  Paul     14 

Summit,    19 

Susquehanna  Avenue     16 

Tabernacle     5 

Tabor,    12 

Temple,    9 

Tennent  Memorial    14 

Tioga,     17 

Trinity    18 

Trinity,  Chestnut  Hill    18 

Union,     11 

Union  Tabernacle    16 

Wakefield,    18 

Walnut  Street    12 

West  Arch  Street     4,  6 

West  Green  Street     17 

West  Hope,     13 

Westminster    12 

Westside,    19 

West  Spruce  Street,    6 

Western,     11 

Wharton  Street,    12 

Wissahickon     19 

Wissinoming,     18 

Woodland,      14 

Wylie  Memorial    11 

York  Street,      16 

Zion,     14,  18 


